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Humanities Research Fellowship & Mellon Project Grant

The Humanities Research Fellowship (HRF) program supplements the sabbatical salaries of assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors at UC Berkeley who are engaged in humanistic disciplines or who work in the creative arts. Funded by the McEnerney Endowment in the Division of Arts & Humanities, the HRF program enables faculty members to take research leaves ahead of the normal sabbatical-leave schedule.

The Mellon Project Grant (MPG) program, funded by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation to the Division of Arts & Humanities, is intended to support research costs for full professors in the Arts & Humanities and social sciences at UC Berkeley who are engaged in research in humanistic disciplines or who work in the creative arts. Please note that the MPG is no longer available for associate and assistant professors and is only available for full professors.

Eligible faculty members may apply for a fellowship, for a project grant, or for both.

Please carefully review the HRF Eligibility and Program Policy and/or the MPG Eligibility and Program Policy prior to submitting an application. Please also review the Application Review Questions – a document created to assist applicants refine and rethink their applications.

Once the eligibility and program policies and the application review questions have been carefully reviewed, you may submit your application(s) by using the link below.

The Deans’ Office will provide the applications to the department chairs and managers. The managers are asked to review the sabbatical credits for HRF applicants and the chairs are asked to provide a letter of recommendation for each applicant and a ranking of all applications. If you are a chair applying, the dean will select a professor in your department to write a letter of recommendation for you.

If you have any questions or problems, please contact Ellen Moldenhauer (LSDO@berkeley.edu) or your department manager.